Post by Chain_the_Warforged on Jul 7, 2008 18:00:14 GMT -5
Exoskeletal Armor:
My attempts at shielding
In my experience, shields have a varying effeciveness based on the amount of energy put into them and the programing encapsulated within them. The purpose of this thread is to share my current armor, which resembles a psionic exoskeleton. Note that this is an advanced article.
So, lets talk about the shield.
After some experimentation, I found something that seemed to work pretty well for me. I created a layer of superdense armor that resembles a cross between a Warforged and the Nanosuit from Crysis. It is programed to depaternize incoming attacks, as well as to enhance my psionic and physical abilities. The exoskeleton is powered by a direct conduit from my Creation Forge and a dynamo, which Arnick2 provided the template for.
The outer layer of the armor is made from several layers of superdense Core, charged with depaternizing energy. It is integrated with a weave of strength-enhancing constructs.
Outside of the armor, I have a more mundane shield, which is a very slighly modified version of Stolide's Uber-Shield. He recieves the credit for that component of the armor. It has been modified to include a depaternizing layer, however.
The four things which I integrated into the armor most sucessfuly are a depaternizing energy body, shield drones, an astral warp, and cloaking.
The first, the depaternizing energy body, is not something I would recomend anyone who is less than extremely experienced try. The first time I attempted it, I left my self without the ability to make use of any energy aside from pure psi. However, it is possible to simply overlay a depaternizing layer over your energy body without actualy replacing it.
The next, shield drones, were an extrapolation from a shielding tech I got from Miri. This technique focused around creating a field of energy that fluctuated and rebuilt itself too rapidly to ever take any damage. However, the shield was not recomended for use on a human because of several of its energetic properties. To allow me to use the shield, I created several small drones that projected the shield out around me. They also have some combat capablities, but you need to PM me to find out about them.
The third, astral warps, is a bit similar to a mirror shield. I created a 'warp' in astral space to twist all attacks aimed at me back towards the attacker. This is not as dificult as it sounds; the Astral plane is highly mutable and can be altered easily. Essentialy, any attack ends up swinging around me and back at the attacker.
And the final, cloaking, was added more as a last resort defense than anything to stop damage. It allows me to pretty much disapear, meaning that any attacker will end up being unable to locate me.
A How-To Guide:
Creating the armor and shields
The Exoskeleton
Let's start with the innermost layer of defenses: The Exoskeleton. And to create that, we first need to power it. Read this article, by me, on construct power sources. Any of these sources of power can be modified to power armor relatively easily. Or, if you have another power source, use that.
The goal here is to embed a source of power inside an inwards-facing mirror shield, inside your energy body. This will create a huge amount of energy. You want to create a series of tubes (Just like the internet!) feeding this energy into what will become your shield.
After ensuring that the energy is flowing, through some quick scanning, begin creating the exoskeleton itself.
Create a superdense, close-fitting armor. Really impart as much energy as you can into creating it, take some time here. At this point, you want to start tieing the tubes created in the last step into the armor. Make them flow through the armor, carying the psi through. Program the superdense armor to gather energy from the tubes, and repair itself using that energy. If you want this to be an exoskeleton as opposed to just armor, create some constructs to enhance your psionic and physical abilities and tie them into the energetic system of the armor.
The armor should be very apparent at this point. Ensure that you can feel it. Then, create the superdense layer again. Overlay the two, and program them to support and reinforce each other. Do this as many times as you can without suffering any overload or burnout. The goal here is to create a nigh-impermeable layer of dense energy.
Now, take a break. Ground, eat some food, walk around outside, relax. Take as much time as you need to fully regenerate before going on to the next stage.
The Exoskeleton Part II
Right now, you have created an extremely good shield. The instructions after this point should be treated as optional. They will improve your defenses, but you probably don't need them unless you are as paranoid as I am. Credit for this section goes to Cullen, from PsiOnline, for inspiration. Go here for the article that I am basing this section on.
At this point, you are going to want to reinforce the armor. Create several strands of psi, and make them as dense as you can. Program them to depaternize anything hostile that they come into contact with. Then, weave them into a dense mesh surrounding and weaving through the exoskeleton. They should be tightly attached to the dense layers. Integrate them into the tubes of energy. Ensure that they are fully powered.
Now, ensure that you have done everything you want to to the exoskeleton and weave. The next steps will prevent you from going back and changing anything.
You want to program the armor never to move away from your body. Tie it into your energy body. This step is to prevent anyone from stealing the armor (which IS possible, it HAS happened to me before). Then, program it to reject any attempt to modify or reprogram it. Make this unilateral; even if the attempt comes from your sig, it needs to reject it. At this point, the shield should be pretty much hackproof.
Take another break, if you need it. Congradulate yourself on creating a truely excelent shield.
The Shields
Unless you are really paranoid, this step is probably unnessicary. Still, another layer of shielding is almost never bad.
Follow the shielding tutorial by Stolide, linked here. In my experience, it is one of the better resources for shielding. Like I said, though, unless you are as paranoid as I am, you can skip this step.
Advanced Defenses
Creating the more advanced constructs
If you are following this tutorial, then you have already created some excelent armor. If not, then these techniques might still be valuable to you. They attempt to compensate for the weaknesses inherent to armor and shields. Several of these can be utilized for combat, but as I said, you need to PM me if you want to find out about these applications.
Depaternizing Energy Core
I have discused this construct before. The idea of it is to depaternize any energy manifesting inside the shield. It is possible to create an entirely new energy body that does this, but I do not recomend this for anyone not very advanced. I had some serious problems with making a tiny mistake while doing this a while ago, which took quite a while to recover from. If you are going to attempt to do so, please PM me beforehand. I can tell you about what not to do.
However, simply creating another layer of your energy body is dramaticaly less dangerous. The goal of this construct is to depaternize any attack. Create a field of psi around you, in aproximently the shape of your body. Program it to overlay your Energy Body, and intercept any attacks. It should depaternize anything that you do not create.
Ensure that it works by manifesting a psiball within yourself. If it does in fact work correctly, the psiball should distintigrate almost imediatly.
Program the psi field to reject all input in the same manner that you programmed the armor.
Let me know what you think
My attempts at shielding
In my experience, shields have a varying effeciveness based on the amount of energy put into them and the programing encapsulated within them. The purpose of this thread is to share my current armor, which resembles a psionic exoskeleton. Note that this is an advanced article.
So, lets talk about the shield.
After some experimentation, I found something that seemed to work pretty well for me. I created a layer of superdense armor that resembles a cross between a Warforged and the Nanosuit from Crysis. It is programed to depaternize incoming attacks, as well as to enhance my psionic and physical abilities. The exoskeleton is powered by a direct conduit from my Creation Forge and a dynamo, which Arnick2 provided the template for.
The outer layer of the armor is made from several layers of superdense Core, charged with depaternizing energy. It is integrated with a weave of strength-enhancing constructs.
Outside of the armor, I have a more mundane shield, which is a very slighly modified version of Stolide's Uber-Shield. He recieves the credit for that component of the armor. It has been modified to include a depaternizing layer, however.
The four things which I integrated into the armor most sucessfuly are a depaternizing energy body, shield drones, an astral warp, and cloaking.
The first, the depaternizing energy body, is not something I would recomend anyone who is less than extremely experienced try. The first time I attempted it, I left my self without the ability to make use of any energy aside from pure psi. However, it is possible to simply overlay a depaternizing layer over your energy body without actualy replacing it.
The next, shield drones, were an extrapolation from a shielding tech I got from Miri. This technique focused around creating a field of energy that fluctuated and rebuilt itself too rapidly to ever take any damage. However, the shield was not recomended for use on a human because of several of its energetic properties. To allow me to use the shield, I created several small drones that projected the shield out around me. They also have some combat capablities, but you need to PM me to find out about them.
The third, astral warps, is a bit similar to a mirror shield. I created a 'warp' in astral space to twist all attacks aimed at me back towards the attacker. This is not as dificult as it sounds; the Astral plane is highly mutable and can be altered easily. Essentialy, any attack ends up swinging around me and back at the attacker.
And the final, cloaking, was added more as a last resort defense than anything to stop damage. It allows me to pretty much disapear, meaning that any attacker will end up being unable to locate me.
A How-To Guide:
Creating the armor and shields
The Exoskeleton
Let's start with the innermost layer of defenses: The Exoskeleton. And to create that, we first need to power it. Read this article, by me, on construct power sources. Any of these sources of power can be modified to power armor relatively easily. Or, if you have another power source, use that.
The goal here is to embed a source of power inside an inwards-facing mirror shield, inside your energy body. This will create a huge amount of energy. You want to create a series of tubes (Just like the internet!) feeding this energy into what will become your shield.
After ensuring that the energy is flowing, through some quick scanning, begin creating the exoskeleton itself.
Create a superdense, close-fitting armor. Really impart as much energy as you can into creating it, take some time here. At this point, you want to start tieing the tubes created in the last step into the armor. Make them flow through the armor, carying the psi through. Program the superdense armor to gather energy from the tubes, and repair itself using that energy. If you want this to be an exoskeleton as opposed to just armor, create some constructs to enhance your psionic and physical abilities and tie them into the energetic system of the armor.
The armor should be very apparent at this point. Ensure that you can feel it. Then, create the superdense layer again. Overlay the two, and program them to support and reinforce each other. Do this as many times as you can without suffering any overload or burnout. The goal here is to create a nigh-impermeable layer of dense energy.
Now, take a break. Ground, eat some food, walk around outside, relax. Take as much time as you need to fully regenerate before going on to the next stage.
The Exoskeleton Part II
Right now, you have created an extremely good shield. The instructions after this point should be treated as optional. They will improve your defenses, but you probably don't need them unless you are as paranoid as I am. Credit for this section goes to Cullen, from PsiOnline, for inspiration. Go here for the article that I am basing this section on.
At this point, you are going to want to reinforce the armor. Create several strands of psi, and make them as dense as you can. Program them to depaternize anything hostile that they come into contact with. Then, weave them into a dense mesh surrounding and weaving through the exoskeleton. They should be tightly attached to the dense layers. Integrate them into the tubes of energy. Ensure that they are fully powered.
Now, ensure that you have done everything you want to to the exoskeleton and weave. The next steps will prevent you from going back and changing anything.
You want to program the armor never to move away from your body. Tie it into your energy body. This step is to prevent anyone from stealing the armor (which IS possible, it HAS happened to me before). Then, program it to reject any attempt to modify or reprogram it. Make this unilateral; even if the attempt comes from your sig, it needs to reject it. At this point, the shield should be pretty much hackproof.
Take another break, if you need it. Congradulate yourself on creating a truely excelent shield.
The Shields
Unless you are really paranoid, this step is probably unnessicary. Still, another layer of shielding is almost never bad.
Follow the shielding tutorial by Stolide, linked here. In my experience, it is one of the better resources for shielding. Like I said, though, unless you are as paranoid as I am, you can skip this step.
Advanced Defenses
Creating the more advanced constructs
If you are following this tutorial, then you have already created some excelent armor. If not, then these techniques might still be valuable to you. They attempt to compensate for the weaknesses inherent to armor and shields. Several of these can be utilized for combat, but as I said, you need to PM me if you want to find out about these applications.
Depaternizing Energy Core
I have discused this construct before. The idea of it is to depaternize any energy manifesting inside the shield. It is possible to create an entirely new energy body that does this, but I do not recomend this for anyone not very advanced. I had some serious problems with making a tiny mistake while doing this a while ago, which took quite a while to recover from. If you are going to attempt to do so, please PM me beforehand. I can tell you about what not to do.
However, simply creating another layer of your energy body is dramaticaly less dangerous. The goal of this construct is to depaternize any attack. Create a field of psi around you, in aproximently the shape of your body. Program it to overlay your Energy Body, and intercept any attacks. It should depaternize anything that you do not create.
Ensure that it works by manifesting a psiball within yourself. If it does in fact work correctly, the psiball should distintigrate almost imediatly.
Program the psi field to reject all input in the same manner that you programmed the armor.
Let me know what you think